News & Articles on Community Power
Developing renewable energy on the scale needed to make the energy transition will require public acceptance. Unlike nuclear power, where society can force a single plant on a community for the benefit of society at large, renewable energy will have to become ubiquitous in our communities and on our landscapes. This can only be possible when the majority accept this transformation. Experience has taught that acceptance is greatest when neighbors and the community at large can participate in the renewable energy revolution. The beauty of renewable energy is that everyone can take part–and own a stake in their future–when given an opportunity to do so. The challenge is creating the policies that make this possible, whether it’s for a community wind project or a solar garden.
OWNED BY WALES: The plan for a public energy company that keeps wind farm profits here
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External Source
The promise from ministers is cheaper, cleaner power with the money reinvested at home. The reality check comes with it: the company would not take over your gas and electricity supply, would not set the price you pay, and any saving on bills is a long-term hope rather than help for this winter. What is on the table is one national public energy company, bringing together the energy organisations Wales already has, and everyone in Wales is being asked how it should work before the plans are settled.
Balcony Solar May Become a Reality in California
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Paul Gipe
Balcony solar, or plug-in solar for us Yankees, may actually become a thing in California. The state legislature passed plug-in …
How British solar farms are returning shedloads of money to consumers
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David Toke
Solar farms given contracts by the British government to supply electricity to the grid are paying larger and larger sums to electricity consumers. Far from being given subsidies by consumers, they are subsidising the consumers. They will also act to depress electricity prices in general.
How the energy establishment disses solar PV so much it doesn’t even count it properly!
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David Toke
Readers of this blog will be aware of how the rise of solar PV around the world has taken the energy establishment by surprise. But not everyone knows how they are still dissing the technology. They don’t even count it properly! There’s a reason for that. It does not fit in with their model of how the energy industry works, so information that suggests that the system is radically changing is just being ignored.
In The UK, “Power To The People” Is Latest Clean Energy Trend
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Steve Hanley
Zoë Holliday said the case for community ownership and wealth building had come into sharp focus in the debate about the transition away from oil and gas. Community and publicly owned schemes returned far more to local communities than the £5,000 per MW of capacity typically offered by private projects, she said. “There’s real political will at both Scottish and UK level to support community energy. We could be transforming our communities if we just gave them a stake in this system,” she added.
Italian Wind Mural
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Paul Gipe
Mural on village wall in the central Appenine town Tocco da Casauria depicting the installation of two Riva-Calzoni wind turbines …
Cascade Community Wind Company?
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Paul Gipe
As part of my continuing project to document early wind projects, I am seeking information on the Cascade Community Wind …
Community Energy in the UK – regulatory barriers
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External Source
Community Energy London chair Syed Ahmed revealed that his group believed that London had the capacity to reach 1GW of community energy capacity by 2030. Yet the sector is currently lagging far behind this. Community Energy England’s State of the Sector 2022 report makes clear the potential growth of the community energy sector, but also how far behind we are in achieving this.
‘Extreme caution’ as Hull’s first large wind turbine to be taken down following major blaze
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The turbine was built back in 2008 along the banks of the River Hull. Standing at an astonishing 125m, it has been a part of the Hull skyline for over 15 years.
